This paper was given at the international symposium, Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, which took place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, March 2023 by Jeff Love. Alexandre Kojève writes in Atheism (1931) that the “human being in the world” is “given to herself as a potential suicide, and
Versions of this paper were presented at the following international symposiums: Russian Literature, Philosophy, and Religious Thought in a Time of Catastrophe, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), Lisbon, Portugal, March 2023, and Russian Literature and Philosophical Thought: Religion, Nationalism and Dissidence, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil, November 2022. Written by Randall Poole: In
The following article was written and presented as in-class lectures two years ago, during the height of the pandemic lockdowns, by Peter Winsky. It is published here, for the first time. As the pandemic wears on, we have begun to enter into a new routine of day-to-day life. With a tangible threat to our and
The following article, written by Caryl Emerson, was first published in Christian History issue 146 and is republished here with the permission of the author. “When cruelty is the norm, love is an act of rebellion.” This thesis, applied to Christ’s response to the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov (1880), belongs to Dostoevsky scholar
The following are two statements from members of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought regarding the influence of the war in Ukraine on reading and discussing Russian Literature. The first is an open letter from Susan McReynolds, Co-Director of the Initiative and Associate Professor and Chair of